The trading card game features monsters and mechanics featured in the show, and it remains popular in trading card game tournaments across the world.
The show also managed to spawn a trading card game based on the one in the show, with which Takahashi was intimately involved.
Takahashi started his career as a mangaka in 1982, struggling to get any of his series off the ground until 1996.
Takahashi was also still actively involved in creating new Yu-Gi-Oh stories and merchandise, even releasing a collaboration with Marvel earlier this year.